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New Approach: Can Gov. Bush
Be a Conservative With a Twist?

By

Gerald F. Seib

Updated Jan. 27, 1999 12:48 a.m. ET

Austin, Texas

HERE IN TEXAS , the most interesting political developments have nothing to do with the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton, which most folks happily ignore. Instead, the most intriguing developments involve the emergence of a new, 21st-century society, and the way Gov. George W. Bush is trying to reshape Republican politics to deal with it.